Warning: Book contains sexual images that may offend some people

Purity is a catalogue of Brooker’s practice as a fine art photographer over the past twenty five years and is a fascinating insight into counter culture and alternative sexuality in Sydney in the 1990s.

Purity demonstrates that sexuality is about personal choices and possibilities.
Brooker photography takes sexual taboo and transforms it into spirituality and sensuality. Her images convey the belief that good sex promotes freedom within and a sense of exhilaration and this is evident in her style and pursuit of Purity.

Brooker talks with a sense of delicacy about the sensitivity of
sex, of a strange fragility that is evoked in her work.

When describing her practice, there is a feeling of negotiating boundaries and the risk of falling over the edge into a dark place, but instead these images teeter precariously at the precipice, a determined and unsettling wedge splitting our sense of the acceptable.

Brooker describes Purity as a love story. It is an exploration of one woman’s journey in life yet on a grander scale it reflects and informs a whole generation about the changing face of sexuality in the 21st century.

by Lorretta Swindale

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that the book contains images of people who are now deceased.

Chapters page

1. Introduction 4
2. Circles 9
3. Erotica 24
4. Cathie Brooker 33
5. Fairies 51
6. Women and Goddesses 56
7. Male Centrefolds 76
8. Trannies 83
9. Lesbians 88
10. Heterosexuals 92
11. Male Gays 104
12. Death